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Commercial

Commercial diving decompression

Public research, procedures and datasets for surface-supplied, bell, saturation and other occupational diving exposures.

Surface team preparing a helmet diver at the water's edge
A surface team prepares a helmet diver.Peter Southwood (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Scope

Commercial decompression is governed by procedures, tables, standards and operational constraints that do not map cleanly onto recreational diving. OpenDeco keeps those differences visible instead of forcing every exposure into a scuba frame.

  • Surface-supplied air and mixed-gas diving
  • Bell diving and transfer-under-pressure procedures
  • Saturation decompression and excursions
  • Chamber decompression
  • Occupational exposure datasets
  • Table and standard lineage
  • Procedure-to-procedure comparison
  • Public incident and outcome evidence where defensible

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What the commercial programme asks

  1. Which public tables and procedures can be reconstructed precisely enough for direct comparison?
  2. Where do operational constraints create decompression choices that cannot be represented by a recreational-computer model alone?
  3. How well do historical occupational datasets describe the populations and exposures they are used to justify?
  4. Which procedure differences are scientifically meaningful, and which are artifacts of notation, units or implementation?

Current work

Current commercial-diving research and data records appear here with their source and access status.

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No public commercial projects yet.

Relevant datasets, models and methods remain available through the OpenDeco research catalogue.

Continue with the records and methods for this field.